Civil Rights

Slavery as free trade The 18th-century thinkers behind laissez-faire economics saw slavery as a great example of global free trade by Blake Smith For a generation, the relationship between slavery and capitalism has preoccupied historians. The publication of several major pieces of scholarship on the matter has won attention from […]

LaVena Johnson “Silent Truth” By http://themadmanchronicles.com LaVena Johnson was a soldier who enlisted in the Army in 2003. She was the first woman from Missouri to die in Iraq. What happened to this young black woman was appalling. She was found in her tent with a gunshot wound to the […]